Given renewed interest in the topic, sharing a piece from August by Ayòbámi Nicole Dubosh, MD Alden Landry. The removal of race from the one-liner, HPI, or clinical presentation has long been discussed as a way to ⬇️ bias in medicine. Useful guideline here. Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

If 2 ppl speaking a few ft apart & 1 has #COVID19: 👉1 in surg 😷= 90% odds of infection in 1/2 hr 👉1 in N95 😷= 20% odds in 1 hr 👉Both in surg 😷= 30% odds in 1 hr 👉Both in N95 😷= 0.4% odds in 1 hr Want #schools w/ #Omicron? Get all in N95/KN95/KF94! bit.ly/3t3OBV4

Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy providing cancer, cardiac, GI, rheum drugs at a steep discount. Leukemia drug Imatinib (Gleevec) which usually retails at $9,657 is sold at $47. Perhaps the greatest disruption in US healthcare this decade.👏🏼 costplusdrugs.com Mark Cuban

Excited to share our latest ESPEN Clinical Nutrition publication! Worked alongside BIDMC Department of Surgery residents Scott Fligor MD L. Jenny Yu, MD. Stay tuned for more exciting results✅ #IntestinalFailure #SBS sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of 0 school shootings in the UK. #Uvalde

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.

In <12hrs of publication of this paper, news outlets are already posting sensationalistic headlines that screening colonoscopy benefits may have been overstated. This is going to have⬆️public health impact for lay readers. But pls keep this in mind: 1/2 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Savas Tsikis M.D. for winning the NASPGHAN Nutrition Prize BCH Department of Surgery BIDMC Department of Surgery

You may have heard the shocking headline that 250,000 people die every year in the US due to misdiagnosis in the ER. You may be even more shocked to know that this statistic is extrapolated from the death of... just one man. in a Canadian ER. over a decade ago.

💯 my favorite was on PSEUDOnephrotoxicity due to piperacillin-tazobactam 😛 #PiptazoPhobia emcrit.org/pulmcrit/myth-…

Huge congrats to Dr. Natalia Chaves, a friend, mentee, classmate, and now co-resident BIDMC Department of Surgery on her just-published paper! Proud is an understatement. Benjamin James Scott Fligor MD Reagan Collins Endocrine Society academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-a…

Congratulations to my co-fellow Scott Fligor MD for winning both the Trainee Award and Harry M. Vars award at ASPEN ‘23 !! BIDMC Department of Surgery BCH Department of Surgery

JUST ANNOUNCED: Scott C. Fligor​, MD, receives the Harry M. Vars Research Award and Devon Pace​, MD,​ receives the Promising Investigator Award. Congratulations! #ASPEN23 #NutritionResearch

Our latest work on a new therapeutic for IFALD is now out in Gastroenterology! Thanks to a great team BCH Department of Surgery Savas Tsikis M.D. Thomas Hirsch Kamila Moskowitzova @AshlynWhitlock doi.org/10.1053/j.gast…

Breaking News: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has announced a new collaboration with BIDMC and plans to build the region’s only free-standing inpatient hospital for adult cancer patients. The proposed state-of-the-art cancer center will transform the future of patient care

Open access article in #JPEN: Absorption of an engineered medium-chain fatty acid analogue in two short bowel syndrome minipig models. ow.ly/6PoC50PVHSS

Beth Israel Deaconess Transplant Institute is proud to be the #1 Liver Transplant Center in New England and the only 13-bar program within 500 miles! With the highest liver transplant rate, the greatest chances of getting transplanted, and the best post-transplant outcomes.

Congratulations to all our General Surgery Chiefs on their Fellowship Match! 🎉 #BIDMC #BILH #Match2025 #residents #fellowship

Congratulations. We are so excited to welcome an incredible group of future surgical oncologists.